Pen attachment



a- 8, 1934. M, H. YOUDE 1,971,699

PEN ATTACHMENT Filed Apri l 26, 1933 Inventor J14 /7. l gad e,

I g umm /I Home y Patented Aug. 28, 1934 PEN ATTACHMENT Mary Helen Youde, New York, N. Y.

Application April 26, 1933, Serial No. 668,128

1 Claim.

This invention relates to an attachment for a pen, the general object of the invention being to provide means for facilitating the teaching of commercial or engrossing handwriting.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of .the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which2- Figure l is a view showing the invention in use.

Figure 2 is a side view of the pen, with the invention thereon.

Figure 3 is an end View looking toward the pen point.

As shown in these views, the attachment consists of a plate-like member 1 of considerable length and having a wide upper part 2 which has an opening therein for receiving the point carrying end of the pen holder A. The intermediate part of the member 1 is reduced in thickness, as shown at 3, and the lower end is again reduced in thickness, as shown at 4, and a spherical part 5 is attached to the extremity of this part 4. This spherical member is preferably formed of celluloid or the like so that it will glide over the paper without friction.

The hole 6 in the upper end of the member is so formed that when the holder is placed therein, the attachment will slightly slope away from the point carrying end of the holder, as shown in Figure 2, and the attachment also extends diagonally downwardly to the left, as shown in Figure 1.

The device is rigidly attached to the pen holder. This device, attached to a pen holder, will facilitate the teaching of commercial handwriting and it prevents one from writing on the side of the pen point.

By using this attachment on a pen, it is impossible to write in any other way than the commercial or engrossing style. It holds the pen point firm while making the down stroke and up stroke and thus insures a firm,

uniform writing.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the appended claim.

What I claim is:-

A pen holder attachment for holding the point of the pen in a certain position, comprising an elongated rigid plate having flat faces and decreasing in width from its upper end to its lower end, a spherical member on the lower end of the plate and said plate having an opening in its upper end extending from one face through the other face for rigidly receiving the point carrying end of the holder, said plate sloping slightly downwardly and rearwardly away from the point carrying end of the holder and at an acute angle from the holder and said plate extending diagonally from the left side of the holder.

MARY HELEN YOUDE. 

